---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child-care services; regulation in localities."
description: "Regulation of child-care services in localities.Expands to include all cities the authority related to the regulationof child-care services that is currently available to certain NorthernVirginia localities. This will have the effect of granting all citiesauthority by ordinance to regulate child-care facilities that provideregular care to one or more children not related by blood or marriage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2326"
citation: "Virginia HB 2326 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angelia Williams Graves"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-22"
last_action: "2021-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b69482b-845b-40c4-91c5-739ccb085720"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2326"
source_hash: "fd381d3a7efcf374c193b516cf3fb6aa9ed6bb3dcf329d5223ed0dcb11c2156e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 2326 (2021) — Child-care services; regulation in localities.

Regulation of child-care services in localities.Expands to include all cities the authority related to the regulationof child-care services that is currently available to certain NorthernVirginia localities. This will have the effect of granting all citiesauthority by ordinance to regulate child-care facilities that provideregular care to one or more children not related by blood or marriage.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0479** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0479)
2. **HB2326ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2326ER)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 21103144D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2326)

## Votes

- VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N) — **55–43** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) — **21–18** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (14-Y 8-N) — **14–8** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (8-Y 4-N) — **8–4** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 2-N) — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Angelia Williams Graves — primary (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-22** Presented and ordered printed 21103144D `introduction`
- **2021-01-22** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB2326)
- **2021-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 2-N)
- **2021-01-29** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (14-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-03** Read third time and passed House (56-Y 43-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N)
- **2021-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Reported from Local Government (8-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-24** Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-26** Enrolled
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-27** Signed by President
- **2021-03-01** Impact statement from DPB (HB2326ER)
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 20201
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 479 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b69482b-845b-40c4-91c5-739ccb085720`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).